It’s been a couple of Math Mondays since we last looked at columnar transposition ciphers, so let’s jump back in. In the It’s been a couple of Math Mondays since we last looked at columnar ...
The message is called the plaintext because it is the unchanged source information. Example: The cat ran away. The secret message generated is called a cipher or ciphertext and it is the encrypted ...
I hope you enjoyed Ed’s guest posts on NP-complete problems on TV the last couple of Mondays. It’s always great to hear from others on math that they are thinking about. This week it’s me again, and ...